Lakers rookies sang Stevie Wonder's 'Happy Birthday' to Lonzo Ball

Just because Lonzo Ball is a rookie himself doesn’t mean he can’t benefit from a bit of traditional rookie hazing. The Los Angeles Lakers’ other three 2017 draftees—Kyle Kuzma, Josh Hart and Thomas Bryant—joined together to perform Steve Wonder’s version of “Happy Birthday” to celebrate Ball’s 20th birthday in the film room at the UCLA Health Training Center.

“There’s like the regular version, the white version, and like soul version, the black version,” Ball explained after shootaround on Friday. “I picked the soul one. Kuz didn’t really know it. But he made up for it with the rhythm, so it was cool.”

The way Walton tells it, the best singer of the first-year bunch might’ve been the one receiving the serenade.

“I guess Zo,” the coach said, per ESPN’s Ohm Youngmisuk. “I mean he has his own music. Thomas Bryant is the best worst dancer. Kuzma has got good energy in it. He combines the singing with the dancing and Josh Hart is like the security of the group. He stands there and is kind of quiet and they all have their own role, if they were a boy band.”

“[Hart is] like the member of Boyz II Men that just kind of talks in the background a little bit, didn’t sing much.”